Great Lent

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释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    In Eastern Christianity, the period of fasting before Pascha.

    宗教

词源

A calque from a language with traditional Orthodox practice, where this fast is called "great" to distinguish it from the Advent and Dormition fasts, likely a calque of Byzantine Greek Μεγάλη Νηστεία (Megálē Nēsteía).

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